Flight of the Intruder - Couverture rigide

Coonts, Stephen P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1591141273 ISBN 13 : 9781591141273

Editeur : Naval Institute Press, 2006

Synopsis

In Flight of the Intruder Jake Grafton is an A-6 Intruder pilot during the Vietnam War who flies his bomber on sorties past enemy flak and SAM missiles, and then must maneuver his plane, often at night, onto the relatively small deck of an aircraft carrier. Former Navy flyer Stephen Coonts gives an excellent sense of the complexities of modern air raids and how nerve-wracking it is, even for the best airmen, to technically solve sudden problems over and over, knowing that even a twist of fate like a peasant wildly firing a rifle from a field could wipe out the crew. Grafton alternates between remorse over the fate of his unseen Vietnamese victims on the ground and a gung-ho "let's win this war" sentiment that lashes at both policymakers who select less-than-important targets for the dangerous missions and advocates for peace back in the States.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Coonts, b.1946 inWest Virginia. He received a BA in political science from West Virginia University in 1968. He entered the U.S. Navy and received his Navy wings in 1969. He made two combat cruises aboard the USS Enterprise. After the Vietnam War, he served as a flight instructor aboard the USS Nimitz. He left active duty in 1977 and received a law degree from the University of Colorado, School of Law in 1979 and subsequently worked as a staff attorney for an oil company.

Coonts published his first novel, Flight of the Intruder, in 1986, for which The U.S. Naval Institute honoured him with its Author of the Year Award and which was adapted as a film in 1991. Since then he has written more than 20 books including ones in the Jake Grafton Novel series, Saucer series, Deep Black series, and Tommy Carmellini series. He also published a work of nonfiction in 1992 called The Cannibal Queen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Naval Institute Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1591141273
• ISBN 13: 9781591141273
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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